Discussion+3

What balance among content and science skill sets are you establishing in your teaching during the student teaching experience? Is your main goal to teach a large amount of content, perhaps based on the curricular demands of the school? What is your opinion regarding depth of knowledge versus surface learning of numerous topics? Do you currently have a place in your lesson plans to help students develop investigative/inquiry skills, problem solving skills, laboratory skills, and scientific literacy skills (reading, writing, and presenting scientific work)? How would your lesson plans change if you had academic freedom in a classroom of your own?